Ever since the BBC closed down, I've been missing this thread SOOO much. Hopefully we can revive it. But this time, there should be a couple catches. Instead of just posting your song and artist, hopefully we can actually carry a conversation about what we're listening to.

Maybe some lyrics too. Let's give this thread some substance XD I don't want it to get locked.

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So right now, I'm listening to The One Star, from the SubaSekai/TWEWY Remix cd that came out two weeks ago XD Who else was sick of gamerips and ordered this cd? And what other game music do you like? XD Haha, I feel like such a pathetic idiot.

This can definately turn into a passionate, not spam topic if we work towards it

In our transparent desiresMy heart that is dying out, loopedMoving forward somehow, unconcernedA hesitant storyFor how long will we lose things?You know the real me, that I was hidingMoving forward somehow, meaninglesslyA hesitant story

In short, everything was smashed upIn short, it was dancing in the windA drop shining in your eyesAh, thunder in the blue skyIf there is only pain, then it's divided between us, that's rightThe color of the two of usUntil our white breath runs outThat road that we flew overFrom atop a hill, I can can see a flower called "you"That has bloomed in the city, and will bloom again

In short, everything was smashed upIn short, it was dancing in the windA drop shining in your eyesAh, thunder in the blue skyIf there is only pain, then it's divided between us, that's rightThe color of the two of usUntil our white breath runs outThat road that we flew overFrom atop a hill, I can see a flower called "you"That has bloomed in the city, and will bloom again

In a color like yours...

I'll throw in the lyrics of Loop & Loop too:

Spoiler:

Loop & Loop

A white paper in my right handFor no reason, I draw my pictures and throw them out midway throughThat lights up tomorrow

My dirty left handUnnamed, I drew your picture and came across it in spaceThat lights up tomorrowEndless blue, disappearing scenery, an ending winter

The terrible rain submerges the door that slips awayIt echoes in the bottom of my permeated heartUndependable tomorrow's fleeting memoryIs also a white shadow cut off from a small light

After all, even this stabbed, knocked about, blotted out you of todayWill ultimately end and startThis gathered-up weak magic

The reason; for this lost, knocked about, soiled me of todayThe end credits started to runBreak this boring imageThat's right

On the subject of The World Ends with You, I like the original Calling best. Game Over is good too. Instrumentally I think The One Star is ok, but I don't like the singing.

Other game music I like is the music of Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! and it's sequel, the Metroid series, Castlevania and Guild Wars, and of course the AA-series ^^.

I hope this is enough substance .

Cavaliers forever...Many thanks to Violet for the drawing and Dr. Antrax for the sig!

Nobody makes generalizations about life unless they mean to talk about themselves.

But right now I happen to be listening to Guilty Love The Solitary Confinement song from GS4. I love it, I have both songs as a ringtone on my phone XD

And not knowing what your music says isn't a bad thing... I listen to so much music in japanese and even other languages. And I don't know what any of it means. I think someone said that the language used in music like Jpop and Jrock is hard for those learning Japanese to understand, because it's usually slang, correct me if I'm wrong.

And Metallica is a sick band XD I've been listening to them for over 5 years now ^_^ (Even though they've been around longer than that of course.)

I love that song... Iris was always one of my favourites ever since I was little, it came out a LONG time ago...

And Fire Emblem totally kicks ass. I love the series ^^

Right now I'm listening to Portishead - Wandering Star. I love their music. Beth Gibbons has such an awesome voice <3 I hope I wasn't the only one excited to hear that they reunited XD (Hence Third came out... XD)

really interestingly done song. it's really excellent, too - the overlay of the really girlish voices on top of the gunshots is awesome. i <3 it. makes up for the rest of this album, which i didn't like nearly as much as her first album.

Actually, soundtracks of all four games, on shuffle. That's just the one playing right now.

I prefer listening to the game soundtracks over actual songs, because as background music, and without words, they don't distract me from whatever I'm doing. I could probably write an essay to the GS soundtrack, whereas I wouldn't be able to write three lines to songs with lyrics. The words get in the way. Does anyone else have this problem?

Well, since I have nothing better to do, I'm listening to "Hare Hare Yukai" By Aya Hirano. It's on my TMoHS playlist, so that's it. I was actually doing the dance as well. But now I'm just enjoying it.

The walls are closing in again, oh wellThe walls are closing in again, oh wellI seen some thing I thought I never sawCovered in hairPaul's dad is warped and bubbling, oh wellPaul's dad is warped and bubbling, oh wellAnd my mind is out here on another waveCovered in hair

I'm listening to the CD I had to make for English. It's supposed to be a soundtrack to the Jodi Picoult book The Pact. I love her work...Quite a sad book, that was.

Spoiler: The Pact

This is the final song, the epilogue. It's supposed to represent Chris after his name is cleared, and how he now has to drive the streets he and Emily used to walk on before she killed herself. It also reminds me of that scene at the end when Chris finds that note in the tin-can system. [Or rather, blank piece of paper]

Anyone who pays attention to me when I talk music knows I only listen to full albums at once, so this is less of what song and more of what entire set.

Right now, I'm listening to The Who's Quadrophenia. It's not only their best album, but it just... gets to me. I can't focus on anything else but it for its hour-'n-a-half duration. ( =v=) It's a pretty dramatic album. Especially as it gets more and more enraged. The chorus of Doctor Jimmy ("What is it?! I'll take it! Who is she? I'll rape it!") is a pretty powerful piece. Whole song is great. Whole album is great. Everything is great. I've got to jump around and dance for another hour or so and maybe punch a wall in.

After that is ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead's Source Tags & Codes which is their magnum opus and epic. It too is a pretty dramatic thing, but it's more of a flat out force. It truly is epic by definition. I couldn't even describe it. It's just music with passion. Following that will be Pixies' Doolittle, which is pretty cool.

Not sure what I want after that. I'm thinking The Mountain Goats's The Hound Chronicles, but I can only figure it out when it comes.

If you come across an older post of mine, said with insensitivity or without empathy, I am sorry.

You know, for some reason, hearing Quadrophenia makes me think of that too. But no, the album you're thinking of is The Flaming Lips' Zaireeka.

Apparently, Zaireeka can only be appreciated fully if you get a group of friends together to listen to. And yes, it's four CDs designed to be played on four players at once. I figure one of these days I'll get a chance to try it out. It's supposed to be incredibly awesome.

If you come across an older post of mine, said with insensitivity or without empathy, I am sorry.

You know, for some reason, hearing Quadrophenia makes me think of that too. But no, the album you're thinking of is The Flaming Lips' Zaireeka.

Apparently, Zaireeka can only be appreciated fully if you get a group of friends together to listen to. And yes, it's four CDs designed to be played on four players at once. I figure one of these days I'll get a chance to try it out. It's supposed to be incredibly awesome.

i have desperately wanted to do that for the longest time. i have the 4CD copy of zaireeka, i just don't have four people/CD players to do it easily with

speaking of interestingly designed albums, i think i am going to go listen to Godspeed You! Black Emperor's F♯A♯∞. the first side of the record begins in F♯, the second in A♯, and ends in a locked groove, which will continue playing as long as your record player is on, hence the ∞. it's a concept album about the end of the world - it starts out with spoken word:

Spoiler: The Dead Flag Blues

The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheelAnd the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicidesAnd a dark wind blowsThe government is corruptAnd we're on so many drugsWith the radio on and the curtains drawn

We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machineAnd the machine is bleeding to death

The sun has fallen downAnd the billboards are all leeringAnd the flags are all dead at the top of their poles

It went like this

The buildings tumbled in on themselvesMothers clutching babies picked through the rubble and pulled out their hair

The skyline was beautiful on fireAll twisted metal stretching upwardsEverything washed in a thin orange haze

I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful..These are truly the last days"

You grabbed my hand and we fell into itLike a daydream or a fever

We woke up one morning and fell a little further downFor sure it's the valley of death

I open up my walletAnd it's full of blood

and is just amazing from there on out.

i love this album ♥

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While not a song, per se, it's still a rather hilarious sound clip from an episode of...Mad TV, I think. Before that, I was listening to 'Til I Hear It From You by the Gin Blossoms. I really like the song-I usually choose most of my music based on the lyrics and how I can relate them to things, and this relates rather well to a couple different things/people in my life.

Violet wrote:

I could probably write an essay to the GS soundtrack, whereas I wouldn't be able to write three lines to songs with lyrics. The words get in the way. Does anyone else have this problem?

Actually, it's the opposite for me. I can do most anything while listening to songs with lyrics (I've been retyping a master's thesis into my computer while listening to some Billy Joel/the soundtrack to 'Tropic Thunder'), but if I put GS music on and a really good song comes up, I start humming it and getting way off task. It is, however, rather inspirational for PW fics, so that's an upside.

"Last daughter of your royal house/ Go I, his prisoner, because I honoured/ Those things to which honour truly belongs." Antigone, Antigone.

I lock the door and lock my headAnd dream of butterflies insteadThe beauty of their colored wingsThe trees, the grass and pretty thingsImagination fills the void of my existence

Daddy says "I love you girl, it's not your faultYour mom and me don't get along"I know he's lying, I know there's no such thing asInexplicable I hear, forget, this world in bedAnd suddenly the sun comes upThat's when my pets all come aliveThey cheer me up and tell me

Everything's alrightStuffed animals are always right

My favorite song, my favorite showI wonder if they even knowOr if they care or if they even noticeI am standing thereI want my pets to come aliveAnd cheer me up and tell me

Right now I'm listening to "Without You" from the original cast recording of RENT. I haven't listened to anything from this show in ages, but suddenly today I was hit with a strange craving to listen. I love this recording; though I like a couple of the actors from the movie better you just can't beat that amazing raw quality of the original.

Spoiler: Here, have some lyrics! 8D

MIMIWithout you, the ground thawsThe rain fallsThe grass grows

Without you, the seeds rootThe flowers bloomThe children play

The stars gleam, the poets dreamThe eagles fly, without youThe earth turns, the sun burnsBut I die without you

Without you, the breeze warmsThe girl smilesThe cloud moves

Without you, the tides changeThe boys runThe oceans crash

The crowds roar, the days soarThe babies cry, without youThe moon glows, the river flowsBut I die without you

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